Wuying Palace.
Rujun was reporting on the affairs of Jiaozhi County: "On May 18th, Han Guan led 30,000 troops to the border of Champa State, reached a boundary document with the king of Champa State, and cast copper pillars to show that the Ming Dynasty had no intention to go south. Champa City The king promised not to advocate for Annan to occupy the territory, and is willing to restore the Ming Dynasty from generation to generation."
The corners of Chen Di's mouth trembled. What Han Guan did was too unethical. You just need to hold a meeting and sign an agreement. Are you going to bring 30,000 troops?
The Ming Dynasty left a total of 50,000 elites in Jiaozhi, and took out more than half of them in one go. They probably also had divine machine guns behind them. Is it appropriate for you to make the king of Champa tremble even as he signed his name?
Zhu Yunwen didn't care about the way Han Guan did things, as long as things got done. Besides, this all happened a month ago. Now I have issued an order to blame Han Guan. When Han Guan comes to see him, he may have forgotten such a thing...
Jiaozhi has been completely controlled by the Ming Dynasty. What is different from history is that this time there are no eunuchs who plunder and oppress the people, and there are no corrupt officials who do not treat the Yue people as human beings. Zhang Yan and a group of officials are very good, and those who surrendered People of Yu Daming naturally can only behave with their tail between their legs and dare not cross the line at will.
In order to alleviate conflicts and heal the wounds of the war, Zhang Yan allocated a lot of land to the people and moved some poor people in the mountains to the plains. This is understandable. The mountains are not suitable for management, and they are easy to run away if something goes wrong. The plain is more convenient.
Compared with the oppression of the Chen family in Annan in the later period and the tyranny of the Hu family, the Ming Dynasty's twenty-one tax was already a huge blessing. Some people were originally unwilling to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, but after a few months, no one came to snatch it from them. In terms of food, no one took his son away, and no one snatched his girl. Life became safer and more comfortable. Only then was he truly sure that joining the Ming Dynasty was the right thing to do.
The surrender of the people's hearts is only the first step after the surrender of the country. The second step is to cultivate their identification with the Ming Dynasty, that is, education.
With Zhang Yan's personal efforts and the selfless efforts of sages such as Ran Zhong and Yan Bao, Jiaozhi began to build schools one after another, and told the people of Jiaozhi that their children were also eligible to participate in the children's examination, provincial examination, and general examination. As long as the child's parents promised to pay taxes in full for five years to qualify for the imperial examination and the palace examination, the imperial court would allow the children to study and read for free, and the expenses for future trips to Beijing to take the examination would also be paid by the Chief Envoy's Yamen.
This policy truly tied the hearts of the people and curbed the phenomenon of fleeing from famine. In Zhu Yunwen's view, Zhang Yan's move was like a stroke of genius and a reflection of his political wisdom.
It is enough for Jiaozhi to settle down. Give them two years. As long as there are no natural disasters such as huge floods, it will become a granary and material base. By then, those who say that the barbarian land is useless can shut up.
Seeing that the report on the Jiaozhi incident was finished, Xie Jin continued to talk about another issue that had been raised in recent days: "Your Majesty, 500,000 people from Shanxi immigrated to Shandong, Henan, Beizhili and other places. However, after being recorded and compiled, six more people were found out of thin air. There are more than 10,000 people. After repeated verifications by the Chief Envoy, Yushi, etc., it is true that these more than 60,000 people are all refugees from the Hongwu period. And this is only a place that accepts immigrants and gets more benefits. I am afraid that people who have fled from other places in the country are If there are more, please conduct a census of the population again and reorganize the Yellow Book."
Chen Di objected as always: "I thought that the reinstatement of the Yellow Register could be postponed for a few years, but it is better not to disturb the people and trouble the people at the moment."
Xie Jin frowned and said dissatisfied: "Since the 14th year of Hongwu, Taizu has regulated that the governments, prefectures and counties of the world have compiled a yellow book of taxes and levies once every ten years. The most recent time was in the 24th year of Hongwu. Logically speaking, it should have been done last year. However, due to the disaster in Fengyang and other places that has been postponed to this year, we cannot delay it any longer."
Chen Di still disagreed: "Your Majesty, compiling the Yellow Book is time-consuming and labor-intensive. I think it can be extended to every fifteen years."
"Why don't you say statistics every thirty years?"
Xie Jin was angry.
The yellow book is based on a household, recording detailed information such as people's place of origin, name, age, population, land and property, assets, etc., and delineating specific household registrations, which is the basis for the court to pay taxes.
It is no exaggeration to say that important matters of national wealth are tied to the yellow book.
Zhu Yunwen also knew that the yellow book was equivalent to the household registration book of the people in the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty made up yellow records once every ten years. Later generations probably followed the Ming Dynasty and conducted a general census every ten years. In terms of the technology of later generations, the general census faced many difficulties. In the first few censuses, there were also It took several years to produce results, and as it becomes more and more advanced, it will take several months.
However, when the Ming Dynasty fabricated a yellow book, it was really difficult to get it done within a year or two, and during this period, countless manpower and material resources were spent.
Many people think that the yellow book is just a matter of recording a little information about your place of origin, writing a few words, and handing it in. It's that simple. Yes, the general process is indeed very simple, but it is difficult to operate...
The yellow book is compiled and needs to be filled out household by household. The imperial court assigns it to the provincial chief envoy, who arranges it to the government, and the government arranges it to the prefecture and county. After that, an inventory is made, and then the village chief and the head of the family are sent to the village. Paper sheets were distributed to each household to fill out.
However, people in the Ming Dynasty usually did not know how to write and had to find someone to write for them. At this time, sires were more popular and respected. After all, if you made a mistake in writing, your family only had five acres of land. If you tremble and write fifty acres, then be happy and remember to pay fifty acres of tax next year.
When these small pieces of paper for the inventory are completed, Head A will collect them and then hand them over to the head of the district. The head of the district collects them and counts them to see if there are 110 households. After confirming that there are no mistakes, these small pieces of paper need to be returned. After finishing the film and forming a list, I ran to the prefecture and county to hand it in.
After the prefecture and county receive it, they still need to make a county register, and then ride a donkey, oh, and most likely drive an ox cart to the government. There is no way, no one can take away a county register plus hundreds of books. book……
After the government received these booklets, they had to get a copy of the government booklet, and then bring it to the Chief Envoy Si Yamen along with the inner and county books. The Chief Envoy Siyamen was even busier, with these thousands of inner books. Ah, just creating a mansion book will take a long time...
After the busy work was completed, a department register was formed, together with the district registers, county registers, and government registers received before, and they were all sent to the household department in the capital. The household department received too many books, and the cloth There are more than a dozen government records, more than a thousand county records, and tens of thousands of local records...
By the way, the Yellow Book is made in quadruplicate, and each place must keep a copy of the Yellow Book for each jurisdiction, so either give out four copies at a time when handing out small pieces of paper, or take them to the Yamen to copy a few copies...
By the way, the yellow book is one foot two inches long and two inches wide. It is completely square. It is not ordinary paper, but thick cotton paper to avoid moth infestation. Basically, it is not allowed to use glue, but needs to be roughened. For binding with cotton thread, you need to poke it with a needle...
All in all, getting a pornographic book is a tiring job.
But what has to be done is that the basis for paying taxes to the imperial court is the yellow book, isn't it? The court must know how many households the population has increased in ten years. Coupled with the implementation of the whip law, a lot of land returned to the hands of the people. The court must also know how much cultivated land a family has, and the stock and increase of cultivated land in various places.
Predicting future agricultural taxes must also be based on this. In addition, if people need to be recruited in the future, they will be recruited according to the yellow list. If they are not on the yellow list, you will not even be able to issue tax receipts, and there will be nothing you can do when recruiting manpower.
Zhu Yunwen knew that this matter was troublesome, but he also knew that it had to be done. He finally made up his mind to conduct a thorough census: "It is imperative to compile the yellow census once every ten years. We cannot delay it for too long because of the waste of money and manpower."
Seeing that Zhu Yunwen had made up his mind, Jie Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Chen Di sighed helplessly and stepped aside without speaking.
Zhu Yunwen pondered for a moment and said seriously: "However, the fabrication of the yellow book still needs to be delayed for half a year."
Xie Jin was a little stunned. If we delay it for another half a year, it will be the fourth year of Jianwen. It will be sealed at the end of the year and will be done at the beginning of the new year. It will be the fifth year of Jianwen...
Without waiting for Jie Jin's objection, Zhu Yunwen expressed his reasons: "Looking at the immigration from Shanxi, there are many fleeing households in various places. However, fleeing households are by no means limited to Beizhili and other places. In places where immigrants have not arrived, they may flee. There are also many households. I plan to set aside half a year to register all the fugitive households, and then compile the Yellow Register to ensure that this time the Yellow Register is more realistic and to truly find out how many people there are in the Ming Dynasty."
"But Your Majesty, people in Beizhili and other places have escaped from household registration only because the imperial court promised many benefits to immigrants. If the same is true in other places, the imperial court will not be able to bear it..."
Yu Xin said quickly.
Zhu Yunwen smiled: "Since they are runaways, why should we give them benefits?"
Yu Xin blinked and didn't realize what he was doing. They were all running away from home. Who would go out to register without benefits? He was afraid of being recruited and paying taxes, so he chose to run away from home.
Zhu Yunwen knew the concerns of Yu Xin and others, and said calmly: "Fleeing again and again will eventually be related to other households. I'm afraid there are not many people who are truly isolated in the mountains and forests and have nothing to do with the world. I think I can make an announcement. The decree is promulgated to the world. Anyone who does not have a household registration and registers within six months can be allocated land and be exempted from taxes for three years. Those who still do not have a household registration after six months will be allocated land in Beizhili and be naturalized in Beizhili."
Yu Xin swallowed. This order was quite gentle, but also quite tough.
In fact, there are runaway households in every place. This is an indisputable fact. Giving them half a year to think about it means that the court will not hold them accountable. If they still refuse to open their eyes and dispatch them, the court will treat them with courtesy first and then attack.
Zhu Yunwen stood up and looked at the four ministers of the cabinet and said seriously: "At the same time, I also tell all the people that the next time the Yellow Book is compiled, the Ming Dynasty will issue photo IDs. Those without photo IDs will all be refugees and will be distributed to the north. land."
